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CHORDATES
by: Elana T.
Fred S.
Nicole G.



Chordates are animalia that contain vertebrae, most of the time. A vertebrate is the animalia's back bone.


Body Symmetry

Chordates are bilateral animalia.

Digestion Methods

Chordates digest their food with the "tube-within-a-tube" digestive process. It is extracellular digestion.

4 Characteristics

To be considered as a chordate, you need these four characteristics:


1.Dorsal 2.Hollow nerve cord 3.Notochord- long supporting rod that runs through the body just below the nerve cord 4.Pharyngeal pouches- are paired structures in the throat (pharnyx) region


Chordates are coelomates. Coelom fluid between different tissue layers.

HUMANS ARE CHORDATES....HUMANS CAN "-DATE" ONE ANOTHER.

...when you think of chordata characteristics, think of the characteristics of a human.

...we have vertebrates, like every other chordates and we are the only phylum with vertebrates.


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The Phylum Chordata includes humans, tunicates (not a vertebrate), sea lancelets (not a vertebrate), hagfish, and all familiar vertebrate animals. (i.e.- fish, amphibians, mammals, reptiles and birds)


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HUMAN................... FISH.................................TUNICATE...............................​ LIZARD

What separates Chordata from all the other phyla?

a.) vertebrate and legs

b.) brain and coelom

c.) vertebrate and coelom

d.) intracellular digestion and coelom

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